Group 3 assignment next for impressive winner Xenobia

Away from the Classic trials, Bill Farrell took the wraps off Xenobia, who could be a stakes filly in the making given her impressive reappearance in the Foxrock Handicap Cup under Chris Hayes.

Xenobia is Farrell’s flagbearer, the trainer revealing she would now be aimed at the Group 3 Athasi Stakes after this impressive seasonal debut win.

He said: “She's decent and we said last year she'd be a nicer filly at four. She'll go for the Athasi next, unless the handicapper gives us only 2lb, but that doesn't look likely. She'll come on massively from that as we were worried about the ground.”